Figure 6.

Immune gene expression in adult female and male mosquitoes following various larval treatments. Larvae were left unmanipulated (naïve), injured, or infected with E. coli. Five days after eclosion, the expression of CecA (a), LysC1 (b), Stat‐A (c), Tep1 (d), PPO6 (e), and RpS17 (f) was measured by qPCR in both female and male adults. RpS7 was used as the reference gene. Circles mark the data points, horizontal line marks the mean, whiskers denote the standard error of the mean, and asterisks denote significant differences (Tukey's p < 0.05) between the larval naïve group of a given sex (R) and a larval treatment